Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deductibility debate will not be decided by facts and revenues, for at its core are the more peppery issues of politics and fairness that have long made the "three-martini lunch" a hot topic. "A businessman often needs a congenial atmosphere away from the office in which to make his or her pitch," points out Jerry Berns, the 86-year-old co-founder of New York City's "21" Club. Moreover, it does seem unfair to penalize a hardware salesman showing a catalog to a client while sipping Sanka, yet allow a movie mogul to fully deduct...
...suspects that Gioia writes freely about the academy because he worked outside of it for most of his career. For 15 years, he earned a living as a businessman. He rose to Vice President of General Foods before leaving in 1992 to write full time...
Beyond the PREJUDICED door, a monitor shows a white doctor at a cocktail party confiding, "Guess who moved in next door?" The camera shifts to a second group. "I mean, right next door. Can you imagine?" exclaims a black businessman. The camera travels again. "These people, they live like animals!" complains a wealthy white matron. An Asian restaurant owner adds, "You know what they're like -- the way they raise their children." Contends a thirtyish white man: "Sure wouldn't want my daughter . . ." ". . . son . . ." says the Asian. ". . . sister . . ." says a Hispanic woman. The matron finishes: ". . . marrying one of them...
...length about the raucous tabloid wars that erupted in New York City last week. On the one arm was the hard- driving Zuckerman, a millionaire real estate developer who also publishes the weekly newsmagazine U.S. News & World Report and the monthly Atlantic. On the other was another big-bucks businessman, Steven Hoffenberg, who has announced his intention to buy the News's competition, the failing New York Post. With the Post thus gasping for breath, Zuckerman leaped for its jugular and in a few days hired away its three top editors and three of its best columnists...
...very hopeful that Bush's air strike will have much influence on the situation. "I don't think it will cause Saddam much pain," noted a Western envoy in Kuwait. "And I doubt it will deter him. He has a long history of miscalculations." Adds a Kuwaiti businessman: "We are behind the U.S. action, but we believe that Saddam will continue to defy...